Bundle of toilet or wrapping paper



(No Model.)

0. H. HICKS. BUNDLE 0F TOILET 0R WRAPPING PAPER.

No. 425,033. Patented Apr. 8. 1890.

@DVM/meme@ UNITED STATES4 PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER HEVLET" HICKS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE MORGAN ENVELOPE COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUNDLE OF TOILET OR WRAPPING PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,033, dated Apr1`8, 1890.

Original application iiled July 17, 1885, Serial No. 171,894. Divided and this application filed January 31, 1889. Serial No.

298,250. (No specimens.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern: It is obvious that the upper portion of the 5o Beitknown that I,OLIVER HEWLETT HICKS, wire W forms a loop or eye, by Which the of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State package can be conveniently hung up or susof Illinois, have invented certain new and pended, when desired.

5 useful Improvements in Bundles of Toilet or I am aware that toiletpaperhas heretofore Vrapping Paper; and I do hereby declare the been put up in the form of continuous lengths, 5 5 following to be afull, clear, and exact descripperforated at regular intervals and wound tion of the same, reference being had to the into rolls, which are then supported upon cenaccompanying drawings, forming a part of tral cores; but it is obvious that in such a io this specification, and to the letters of referconstruction the perforated and weakened ence marked thereon. portions of the lengths do not, when wound 6o My invention has for its object to furnish into roll form, come into line or register, and

toilet or wrapping paper inaform convenient that, consequently, the advantages which I for use without wastage; and it consists in an obtain by weakening the paper after its forimproved form of bundle or package, which I mation into the band and applying the stay will now proceed to describe. thereto are not obtainable. 6 5 In the drawings, Figure l represents a per- Having thus described my invention, what spective View of abundle of paper construct- I claim as new is ed in accordance with my invention, Fig. 2 l. A toilet or wrapping paper roll or band 2o is a sectional view of the saine. having all of `its incisions or lines of weakness Similar let-ters of reference in both the iigin the saine planeI and provided with a stay 7o ures indicate the same parts. applied thereto, substantially as described, to

In forming my improved bundles or packkeep the said incisions or lines of weakness ages I Wind one or more continuous lengths in the same plane.

of paper upon a comparatively large-sized 2. A toilet or wrapping paper roll or band mandrel until a continuous band of paper A having all of its incisions or lines of weakness 75 is formed of an internal diameter preferably in the same plane and provided with a stay not less than about twice the thickness of the passed through said incisions or lines of weakband at any given point. This band, after ness and secured therein, substantially as set 3o its formation, I then weaken, preferably by forth.

cutting or slitting it from both sides nearly 3. A toilet or wrapping paper roll or band 8o to the middle, as shown ai B, and then aphaving all of its incisions or lines of weakness plying awire or other stay-such as W--by in the same plane, combined with a stay passing it through the slits or cuts and around passed through said incisions and secured the middle portion C, for the purpose of holdtherein, the outer end of said stay having an ing all the layers or convolutions of paper in eye by which the roll or band may be sus- 8 5 their original relative `positions-that is to pended, substantially as described. say, with the lines of cutting or weakness all 4. A toilet or wrapping paper roll or band in the saine plane, and for the further object having all of its incisions or lines of Weakness 4o of providing means by which to suspend the in the same plane, combined with a stay package. To remove a sheet or section from passed through said incisions and having its 9o the band,it is only necessary to grasp the deinner portion engaging the inner part of the pending free end and pull it slightly laterroll or band, substantially as set forth. ally, when it will separate on the line of weakness produced by the incisions or slits, the OLIVER I'IEWLETT HICKS.

new free end thus formed dropping down automatically, or left in position to be easily IVtne'sses: pulled down into position to be grasped for FRED W. JOB, the next operation. ROBT. I-I. MOMURDY. 

